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Dear Reader: Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-century British Fiction

Dear Reader: Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-century British Fiction

Dear Reader: Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-century British Fiction Paperback - 1996

by Stewart

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  • Title Dear Reader: Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-century British Fiction
  • Author Stewart
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 472
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Publication date 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR014807220
  • ISBN 9780801852831 / 0801852838
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.18 x 1.15 in (23.52 x 15.70 x 2.92 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95052372
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.809
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

"Ready now, reader? Easy then. That should put you in the right historical frame of mind, put you in mind of the right historical frame. For it did seem easier then, certainly more relaxed. Like the addressed and otherwise rendered nineteenth-century reader who is my subject of study, you are invited to take it slow while we back our way into the last century. We do so by moving from an unexpected modernist send-up of Victorian direct address, an early twist of phrase in E. M. Forster's 1907 The Longest Journey, to the underlying aesthetic of classic realism on which even this one rhetorical irony is by no means intended to pull the plug. On the way back to the nineteenth century, certain realist assumptions help mark out our course."--from Dear Reader

With the "great tradition" from Austen through Dickens and Eliot to Hardy read here for the first time alongside the non-canonical best-sellers of the period, we get a revised picture of an evolving readership narrated rather than merely implied, the mass audience conscripted, written with, figured in. Redirecting response aesthetics away from the a priori reader function toward this reader figure, Garrett Stewart's Dear Reader intercepts two tendencies in the recent criticism of fiction: the blanket audience determinations of ideological critique and the thinness of historicizing discourse analysis when divorced from literary history's own discursive field.

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